The day he changed his locks to keep him out, Laura Sardinha, 25, was in a call with her mother and her best friend, sounds relieved to end the boyfriend Craig J. Carron.
She had tasks of a restriction order against him, the last or several women to do so. She had demanded that she move from her Huntington Beach apartment. She would not do it with other calls.
However, on the afternoon of September 2, 2020, his phone call was interrupted when he appeared within his department. She left a chilling 37 second voicemail message while attacked with multiple knives.
“If you listen to it carefully, you listen to a woman telling her owner”, deputy distinguish of Orange County. Atty Janine Madera told the jurors that his final argument lasted in the Charron trial in Santa Ana this week.
After less than a day of deliberations, the jury found Charron, 39, guilty of first degree murder.
Sardinha had worked as a cantinero assistant, but a motorcycle accident in 2019 left her unable to grab a knife well enough to cut lemons, as requested by the job. He was looking for an online psychology title and had Carron, a veteran of the Air Force, for just a few months.
Sardinha had recovered a $ 750,000 agreement after his accident, and gave him almost $ 100,000 or him, according to the testimony. “Thank you for showing me that you are all mine,” he sent a text message after resorting a considerable part.
Two weeks before his murder, Sardinha sent him a text message to tell him that he could not hear, because he had broken his eardrum. In an exchange that she recorded on her phone, she can be listening to: “You keep hitting me.”
“Massage my calves or ends this relationship,” he replied.
On the morning of the day she was killed, Sardinha told a friend who Charon woke her up with a demand for oral sex. She recorded to leave her alone and let her sleep.
“Can you go?” He asked repeatedly. “Please get away from me.”
“Everything I want to be with you,” he said.
“You terrify me because you are not left.”
Later, filming in the apartment, he can be listening: “Oh my God, don’t hit me … Laura, why do you listen to me?” While she sits on the sofa courtyards, trying to ignore him.
Just before noon, he went to the lease to ask if his locks could change. The apartment manager saw Charron approach and let her hide in, then accompanied her back to her apartment. A maintenance man changed his locks.
Charron sent a text message and called, but she ignored it. Around 1:15 pm, she was in a three -way call with her mother and her best friend when she heard her cry: “My God, he is Lord.”
It is not clear that Howhron entered his department. On his own, he simply walked through the unlocked.
After her friend hung to call 911, Sardinha called her and left a voice email message in which you can listen to shouting: “He’s going to kill me!” And “Get away from me!”
The prosecutor said that Charron stabbed Sardinha twice in the chest, almost removed his nose and stabbed her in the head with such force that it is a tomato knife he was using.
The police arrived soon to find Sardinha dead, and Charron hemorrh out of wounds to his chest and neck. The prosecutor suggested that he had inflicted them with a serrated meat knife to reinforce his story that Sardinha had attacked him.
“It doesn’t matter if it is self -inflicted injuries or if they defended,” said Mada. “It was the aggressor 100% of the time.”
About 6 feet high and 220 pounds, it had a 9 -inch stem that Sardinha and more than 100 heavy pounds.
“She cannot cut lemons and lims reliably with a knife, much less defend her life,” said Mada. “He rose on her.”
Taking the position in his own defense, Charron described himself as a former combat doctor with a 100% disability rating that resorted to psychiatric treatment in VA. He said he could not remember much of the confrontation with Sardinha, calling him “misty.” But he insisted that she had come with a knife and that she stabbed her in self -defense.
“I didn’t understand what was happening at the time,” he said. “He is taking a second to understand that they are cutting me.”
Duration The trial, three of the former Charron friends testified that they had tasks that came out of rest training orders against them. A woman said she drowned her and hit her in the head with a bottle of wine. Another said he slapped her and poured Vodka on her head. A third said that he immobilized her to a wall and hit a man who was in his company.
“He has a problem with control,” wood told the jury. “Women who want to exercise free will.”
In his final argument, defense lawyer Michael Guisti said that although his client had a history of violence, it was “unheated violence”, and argued that the evidence suggested that he could have acted in the heat of passion or in self -defense.
He said that Charron’s wounds had been serious enough to be “basically dead” and had to revive. “They need you to think they pretended their wounds,” Guisti said.
Mada described Sardinha’s death as “cold heart murder” and pointed out the voice mail he left in his last moments.
“Do not listen to the defendant in him, and his silence is absolutely deafening,” he said. “He is enjoying taking his time killing her.”
The Judge of the Superior Court Michael Cassidy established a ruling date of July 25. Charron faces the possibility of life imprisonment in prison.
